Ben Horowitz, co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, discusses how reduced deployment friction in cloud software makes vertical SaaS for traditional industries commercially viable.
“And then beyond that, you, now it becomes economical and very interesting to build vertical applications for industries. So to build an application that revolutionizes, say, the real estate industry or something like that, Or the construction industry is becoming extremely viable, and not just as a niche business, but as a real venture capital based kind of activity.”
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